When the Technicolor world of music and machine took over the screen on a certain December evening, it took less than a minute for me to readily want to live in each scene that played before my eyes for the
I had devoted the past week to the 2016 Pulitzer-winner Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Gene: an Intimate History- a gripping and terrifying account of the gene’s discovery and the consequent scientific experiments in the field of genetics. Mukherjee’s insights into how
Cinema from the North East foregrounds discursive gaps between lived Indigenous practices and non-Indigenous reception of the same, as well as directs our attention to the growth and development of new ways of understanding the world from the
The study of Bollywood has been around questions of spectatorship, the changing ideas of morality and censorship and studies in sexuality. This article is no different but it takes up a trilogy which sort of bridges two decades of film
Nothing divides the critics like a Salman Khan film. This year’s biggest film, about an underachieving Jat (Khan) and his love for Aarfa (Anushka Sharma), wrestling and himself (in precisely that order) continues to draw crowds. It also continues to
In post-Independence India, the cultural policy vis-à-vis the Northeast emphasised upon the category of the “folk”, implying thereby that the indigenous cultures from the region were to be seen as archaic, stagnant and needed to preserved as such in their
Udta Punjab Director: Abhishek Chaubey Starring: Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Alia Bhatt, Diljit Dhosanj Rating: 4/5 “Human resources ki baat ki, Europe ka ambassador keh raha hai, ‘Bhaiya, Hindustan mein human resources ki kami nahin hai.’ Aur Punjab mein
Sarbjit Director: Omang Kumar Starring: Randeep Hooda, Aishwarya Rai, Richa Chadda, Darshan Kumar Rating: 2/5 “I was punched, kicked, beaten very badly. In order to humiliate me and to break me down [they] made me stand for long hours and
Buddha in a Traffic Jam Director: Vivek Agnihotri Starring: Arunoday Singh, Anupam Kher, Mahie Gill, Pallavi Joshi, Anchal Dwivedi Rating: 1.5/5 I should have been more pissed. After all, I’d come all the way to Rajarhat and run up
“I am an image. Shah Rukh Khan is an image…and I’m just an employee of that image. Now whatever that image, some girl sees pink, some boys see black, some women see beautiful, some people think ‘overrated’, it’s an